Bloomington, Indiana University, Bloomington, Lilly Library at Indiana University, Poole 24. Text(s): Facta et dicta memorabilia, Sayings. Description: ff. 210 - Contemporary or very early binding (perhaps Venetian) of wooden boards bevelled on their inner edges and sewn onto three double bands, covered with tanned leather (presumably goatskin), panelled with triple lines and blind-stamped with multiple impressions of ropework tools and a stamp resembling a section of a wreath, later paper endleaves, upper cover detached; in a pale brown cloth case, morocco spine. - Probably Marcantonio Morosini (c. 1435-1509), of Venice, with the Morosini arms on fol. 4r; Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727-1805), Venetian Jesuit; by descent to his brother, Guiseppe Canonici (d. 1807), and to Giovanni Perissinotti and Girolamo Cardina, who sold over 3000 of Canonici’s manuscripts to the Bodleian Library in Oxford in 1817 and 829 of the remaining manuscripts for 16,000 lire to the Rev. Walter Sneyd (1809-1888); Sneyd’s sale, Sotheby’s, 16 December 1903, lot 805; Leighton cat. 1908, no. 5793; sale at Sotheby’s, 16 May 1955, lot 108; George A. Poole, bought from Lawrence Witten in 1956, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Poole Collection in 1958. - Merolle 1958, p. 50 (then untraced); Faye and Bond 1962, p. 179; Schullian 1981, p. 698; S. M. Hanson in ‘Catalogue’ 1988, pp. 82–85, no. 15. Part 1: ff. 1r-210v. Description: - Parchment - 188 x 130 mm - Collation: 33 [of 4, blank iv canceled], ii??“xxi.

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